As the Paper Goes to Press; Late Labor Developments
As the Paper Goes to Press; Late Labor Developments A8 *• »* to close up the desk because of deadline limitations F» (though labor news knows no deadline) we learn that: President Green is...
...Wage increases are reported.....Organized labor's representatives will accompany Mayor LaGuardia to Chicago when he leaves to address the A. P. of L. Labor Day celebration there...
...About fjtlO workers in shipping and related departments responded to the call...
...The strike continues against certain independent establishments pending signing of separate agreements...
...Details next week...
...Committee on public relationsMatthew Woll, head of the Union Label Trades Department...
...Hy Fish, active in Columbus in the Training Center for Workers' Education and with the knit goods organization drive in Cleveland, sends us a valuable column of Ohio labor notes...
...Overtime work will draw one and a third instead of straight time, and will he limited to two hours a' day and eight a week...
...At first he sent Allied gangsters to beat up and threaten, the pickets wMfuns,hit' the...
...Arrests of union men and Socialists were frequent up to the time that the Mayor issued the ukase allowing mass picketing, which was already legal but which labor-hating Police Commissioner O'Ryan was trying to smash...
...Mayor LaGnardia, having in a liberal but perfectly legal moment permitted mass picketing, is now being put on the spot for it...
...F. of L...
...Six men of the company union (the Allied) picketing LoawV Spooner Theatre, which is signed up by the Local 806, were arrested in a police interpretation of the mayor's order to allow no pickets where no strike is in progress...
...1." Representatives of leading unions in the Federation have been assigned by President William Green to work with the U.T.W...
...The current epidemic of strikes is the result of the workers' determination to get their share of 'returning prosperity' after the harrowing experiences of unemployment...
...Emil Rieve, president of the hosiery workers' federation, Philadelphia, and W. G. Watson, of North Carolina, members of the strike committee...
...Both sides had agreed to accept Borough President Ingersoll of Brooklyn as mediator...
...The strike was called hy the Ladies' Garment Shipping Clerks' Union in conjunction with the already established Local 156, I.L.G...
...Gilbert E. Hyatt, "Postal Clerks' Journal...
...and the special strike committee in organising the strike and carrying it on to a successful conclusion...
...were repulsed...
...Broadus Mitchell, economist and Socialist candidate tot Governor of Maryland, and a number of other Socialists were among the pickets arrested Wednesday for demonstrating before the offices of the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission...
...MASS PICKETING CALLED RADIO workers employed In the DeWald Radio Company, United Laboratories and Pierce Arrow left their jobs Wednesday in a 100 per cent walkout under the leadership of the Radio Factory Workers Union (A...
...Nasi picketing will take plane at eight to nine a.m...
...OUTSIDE NEW YORK: Trucks are beginning to ply Minneapolis streets as drivers and employers voted almost unanimously to accept a compromise peace plan proposed by labor mediators...
...While some point out that the union must seek some means to protect itself against those patently committed by their political affiliation to destruction of A. F. of L. unions and the setting up of dual "revolutionary" unions, it is manifest that such a "war against reds" is an open invitation to stifle all criticism and progressivism within unions...
...A chief cause is the reluctance of employers to realize, that under the NBA workers forts...
...About HO young people, mostly members of the i Y.P.S.L., helped in the routine i work essential to the conduct of i u strike, working without pay' and t fol- barest expenses...
...The drivers' union achieved recognition of its right to represent inside workers, a violently disputed point...
...They will fight conviction in order to make a test case of the right to picket...
...Over a score of men and women who picketed the building in protest against reductions in relief were arrested...
...Meanwhile the union has been setting up national and regional strike headquarters and preparing machinery for the gigantic walkout...
...AND Norman Thomas, national leader of the Socialist Party, has filed suit .for $15,000 damages in Federal court in Illinois against the Christian County deputy sheriff who refused him per mis-ion to speak, tear gassed his audience, arrested and insulted him and Reverend D. H. Anderson, Socialist candidate for Governor, and deprived him of the right to consult an attorney...
...Those called out were nonmanufacturing workers not already members qf Local 155...
...A niodijication of his order is likely soon.....The National Labor Board has come to the defense of'the Communist furniture workers' union in its fight with the Miller company, which ran out on Brooklyn and set up in Jersey City.....We won't mention class collaboration.....Tlie master painters' association was given 48 hours to comply with the painters' union demands...
...Troops were withdrawn...
...W.U.—the Knit Goods Workers' Union...
...In Brooklyn, the two-year-old and wellnigh forgotten strike against the Rugby Theatre wa.« galvanized into feverish activity when the two branches of the 18th A. I), and the Yipsels took a hand...
...Labor Backs General Textile Strike...
...All the re" sourceg of the American Federation of Labor will be thrown behind the United Textile Workers in its forthcoming general strike "on or before Sept...
...Wages were raised from a scale of $13 to $40 weekly to a scale of $15 to $4i...
...otherwise the brotherhood will start signing up employers individually, thus smashing the association...
...the right to get togetrle" r alttfMrgaih for fair" wages'' Knit Goods Workers Win Wage Increase TTHK 14,000 knit goods workers * affected hy the two weeks' strike which ended last Monday in an agreement to arbitrate were awarded higher wages and other concessions by the arbitration decision, just made public...
...Strikers are demanding union recognition, closed shop contract and a 25 per cent wage increase, according to William Heedie, manager of the union...
...We will cooperate wholeheartedly in the execution of strike policies and plans...
...Shipping Clerks Win Recognition A victory for shipping clerks and other non-manufacturing employees was one of the results of the knit goods strike settlement...
...I As the result of a conference . JiMtfyaiieeni Zt*)Mm thjbliiskj Jt committee of the shipping clerks' union to discuss terms of settlement, it was decided that the industrial structure of Local 155( as against the craft unionism existing in most International locals) made it advisable to include these employees in the same local as the manufacturing workers...
...For the first time in the history of the I.L.G.W.U., the right of non - manufacturing workers to union recognition, wages and protection was Won...
...Franklin E. Wolfe, "Oil Workers' Journal...
...The paper holds up the stagnant Communist "unemployed councils" as models, and keeps on lying about the unemployed union...
...Labor organizations point out that this order may easily be turned against legitimate unions where employers maintain that their workers are not on strike...
...Women's committee — Elizabeth Chrlstman...
...His decision concluded with the hope that workers and employers in the metropolitan district who had not yet joined the union or association should do so at once in order to help stabilize the industry...
...The Pea body Coal Co., whose servant the sheriff is, was also sued...
...The strike goes on.....Troops were rushed to Canton, 111., after a dynamite blast had wrecked a mine fan house.....Police arrested 13, including some New York women, in Norwalk, Conn., on the strange charge of inciting to strike.....An arbitrator has been named in the strike at the Curtis Airplane Plant at Buffalo, where, you will recall, Reverend Herman Hahn, formerly Socialist candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, was clubbed by police when he protested police brutality against strikers.....See central spread pages for Sidney Hertzberg's story on the Melton's millions background for the aluminum strike and Arthur Fassberg's cartoon...
...Francis J. Gorman, re-elected vice-president...
...Writing in the current iRsue of the American Magazine, the Senator goes on to explain what he means: "His money income is" one-fourth larger thaiv it...
...The strike was called by the joint council of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and the United Textile Workers...
...Troops have also been withdrawn from Kohler's model town, where two were killed and 43 injured July 26...
...All union lUPPft' c/k arc iii'i/rd lo take their ptoce i/j thf I***nne "tsuth mm...
...committee and to cooperate to the fullest extent...
...But I can't get it set.....The timely items, however, will appear next week...
...Deputy sheriffs in Milwaukee attacked hundreds of strikers and thousands of pickets and sympathizers in connection with a demonstration at the Federal Emergency Relief project in Lincoln Park...
...With parades and meetings, literature distribution and lung, continuous picket lines, the strike took on such a formidable aspect that the owner is now said to he ready to negotiate...
...Committee on trade union cooperation—John P. Frey, BALTIMORE SOCIALISTS ARRESTED FOR PICKETING BALTIMORE.—Mrs...
...The complex question of limitation of machine loads was left to adjustment...
...Backed up in mass picketing and street meetings by fhe Socialist Party branches and Yipsel circles, the union has succeeded in concentrating public attention upon the scab theatres, and in keeping alive public interest and resentment against houses not signing up for full union safety crews...
...was 1H months ago, but WS^ei hare risen even farter than wages, and as a remit the worker biii/K ylii/hlhi lens with hin coinings...
...In preparation for the strike, a > Youth Conference for the support of young workers in the needle trade was formed...
...Hours are .'id weekly during the first year and 35 during the second year of the agreement...
...and the Central Trades and Labor Council is one of the committee...
...Those attending the strike conference agreed as to the economic situation, the grievances of the workers and the necessity for a shorter workday and work week to combat unemployment," Green announced afterwards...
...Or don't you bother about such lies any more...
...The strike will affect some 800,000 workers in the cotton textile and allied Industries, and the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board has been meeting feverishly in order to try to avert it...
...The objections arise chiefly from the "patriotic" tone of the ukase—directed at Communists as such rather than at those who commit overt acts against a union—and the proposal to seek deportation for alien Communists...
...See elsewhere for Ben Fischer's stirring story of Yipsel activity in strikes.....Ditto for Joe Glass' story of the sterling Robins-Gras defense, crowded out of my section...
...The strike was called by the Workers' Committee on Unemployment (Socialist-led), but look out for usual Communist venom barrage—those of you who have time for such things—about Socialist Mayor Moan's "Socialist" police attacking strikers, etc...
...Green named the following to serve on committees for the purpose of cooperating with the general strike committee: Committee on cooperation with governmental agencies — Frank Morrison, general secretary of the A. F, of L. Committee on relief—I...
...Workers "Not Better Off" *J*HE average American worker, says Senator Robert Wagner, chairman of the National Labor Board and close friend of President Roosevelt, is "not entirely better off" under the New Deal...
...Committee on organization — John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers...
...In the Bronx, Harry Silverman, YPSL, arrested for picketing, was released after a defense hy tlu' Socialist Lawyers Association...
...Three and a half holidays are to be given with pay...
...Youth...
...A strike that "will be carried to a successful conclusion will be called l unless substantial concessions are made to the union demands before the time set for the walkout," Green announced...
...Battle Plans Drawn Up WASHINGTON...
...Many employers," Wagner concedes, "are unwilling to give workers a fair share of profits...
...Late Labor Developments A8 *• »* to close up the desk because of deadline limitations F» (though labor news knows no deadline) we learn that: President Green is astounded by the resentment from all over Ahe tountry aroused by his plea to "purge the labor ranks of reds" who "establish cells" and "bore from within...
...Ellis Henries, "Miners' Journal...
...John H. Powers, of Pawtucket...
...Marion Hedges, "Electrical Workers' Journal...
...Spencer Miller Jr., head of the Workers' Education Bureau...
...Louis Waldman was among the speakers at the huge strikers' mass meeting that rejected the bosses' compromise terms.....Conferences between ship workers and operators resulted in a labor agreement between the Seafarers' Council (seven unions) and the oil tanker trades group of the American Steamship Owners' Association...
...M. Ornburn...
...Tear gas and night sticks injured many...
...Participating i organizations were the Young i People's Socialist League, Young i Paole Zifii, Student L.I.I)., Young Circle League, Spartacus Youth . and ('.P.O...
...The union won no discrimination, elections for representation for collective bargaining, a standard wage scale...
...A settlement was therefore reached in which they "were to be included in the settlement by the International and were to be given Local 155 cards...
...Broadus Mitchell, wife of Prof...
...Green conferred with Thomas F. Me Ma lion, recently re-elected president of the U.T.W...
...Abraham Binns, of New Bedford...
...The splendid cooperation of the Yi|is<v, under Industrial Pirector Julio* Bertman materially aided in the success of the walkout," Bei'dic declared...
...I shall call upon all national organizations affiliated with the A. F. of L. to ussign trained special representatives to assist the officers of the U.T.W...
...but the inclusion of the name of David Dubinsky, president of the I.L.G.W.U., leaves a bad taste in the mouth of progressive laborites.....The so-called Daily Worker, in its eagerness to achieve a real united front, etc., has been attacking the Workers' Unemployed Union again because the Communists can't control it and can't emulate its activity...
...Local 306 Lays Siege to Scab Theatres TTHK vigorous attempt of Local *• 300, Motion Picture Operators' Union, to organize non-union and company union houses, has resulted in a number of dramatic conflicts in Brooklyn and the Bronx...
...RADIO WORKERS STRIKE...
...No one is surprised that President Ryan of the I.L.A...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
